huh? Python says that AttributeError: 'string' object has no attribute 'split'

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I received a whole folder full of files with MacOS type text files, with
different newline characters.  I thought, a perfect job for python.
Below is my attempt, but it generates the following error message:

>mac2dos tt_prvt.h
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 33, in ?
    mac2dos( directory )
  File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 24, in mac2dos
    os.path.walk( os.getcwd(), callbackfunc, '' )
  File "d:\python\Lib\ntpath.py", line 265, in walk
    func(arg, top, names)
  File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 18, in callbackfunc
    mac2dosfile( file )
  File "C:\bin\mac2dos.py", line 9, in mac2dosfile
    lines = myline.split( myline, chr(10) )
AttributeError: 'string' object has no attribute 'split'


#mac2dos.py-------------------------------------------------------------
import os
import sys
import string


#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
def mac2dosfile( file ):
 myline = file.read()
 lines = myline.split( myline, chr(10) )
 for l in lines:
  l = l.strip( l )
 file.writelines( lines )

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
def callbackfunc( junk, dir, names ):
 for name in names:
  file = open( name, 'r+' )
  mac2dosfile( file )
  close( file )


#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
def mac2dos( dir ):
 os.path.walk( os.getcwd(), callbackfunc, '' )


#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == '__main__':
 if ( len(sys.argv) < 2 ):
  directory = os.getcwd()
 else:
  directory = sys.argv[1]
 mac2dos( directory )
#-end-of-mac2dos.py-----------------------------------------------------


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